Re: bug passing a % sign to uri-common / spiffy

[Kristian Lein-Mathisen]

Hi,

Are you calling intarweb#read-urlencoded-request-data [1] with the JSON data? I think that procedure only handles form-data. You have to parse JSON yourself, using json,medea or cjson.

[1] http://api.call-cc.org/5/doc/intarweb/read-urlencoded-request-data

K.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, 05:21 masukomi <masukomi@masukomi.org> wrote:

I'm working on a small webapp with a JSON api. I've stumbled across a bug where I can't POST JSON with a % sign in it or it'll blow up.

for example if i POST this json:

```

{
"foo": "%"
}

```

i get this stack trace

```

[Mon Jan  3 23:08:44 2022] "POST http://localhost:5749/json/sanity-check/ HTTP/1.1" Error: (string->symbol)
bad argument type - not a string
#f

[bunch of irrelevant stuff]

router.scm:249: intarweb#read-urlencoded-request-data
spiffy.scm:509: k625
spiffy.scm:497: g628
spiffy.scm:511: handle-exception
spiffy.scm:512: chicken.port#with-output-to-string

```

(router.scm is mine)

Unfortunately that section of spiffy is a long and complex method and the error handler is surrounding a LOT of functionality, so it's not clear to what's blowing up.

I tried bringing the uri-common.scm (since it seems plausible that this is a decoding issue) and spiffy.scm into my project and compiling them into the app (one at a time) but I always end up with this error:

```

Error: during expansion of (import-syntax ...) - unbound variable: ����

```

I'm happy to debug things but I could really use some help. Maybe if someone could tell me the magic incantation to include a file from an egg without that error so that I could then start breaking it down and eliminating problems?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks.

- Kay Rhodes
https://masukomi.org